System for railroad-trains.



No. 864,808. PATENTED SEPT. 3, 1907- E. D.'SMALL.

SYSTEM FOR RAILROAD TRAINS.

APPLICATION P ILED PEB.15. 1906.

[NVENTOR Attorney? 1n: mum): PETERS ca-. WASHINGTON, n. c.

ELI D. SMALL, OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

SYSTEM FOR RAILROAD-TRAINS.

Patented Sept. 3, 1907.

Application filed February 15, 1906. Serial No. 301,302.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELI D. SMALL. a citizen of the United States,residing atLittle Rock, in the county of Pulaski and State of Arkansas,have invented certain new and useiul Improvements in Systems forRailroad- Trains; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to railroad cars and its object is to provide anotlice car adapted to be connected to a passenger train and by means ofwhich the ordinary ticket office may be dispensed with and all officetransactions with passengers may be conducted upon the train.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination ofparts hereinafter more fully described and claimed. n

In the accompanying drawings I have shown the prei erred forms of myinvention, and in said drawings- Figure 1 is a section through a portionof an offic'e car constructed in accordance with my invention, and, Fig.2 is a similar view of a modified form of ear.

Referring to the figures by numerals of reference 1 is a car which maybe of the ordinary passenger variety or which may be speciallyconstructed for the purposes intended. This car is provided with theusual vestibule 2 and the end of the car is cleared to form a lobby 3openinginto the vestibule. This lobby may be of any desired proportionsand at the inner end thereof is disposed a separate room or office iwhich does not extend entirely across the car but has a passage 5alongside of it which extends from the lobby 3 to the compartment 6located at the other side of the office 4.

Where the car is of the ordinary passenger variety seats may be locatedin the compartment 6, but if the car is specially constructed for officepurposes seats will be preferably dispensed with. A desk 7 is suitablydisposed within the office and in rear of a window 8 through whichbusiness may be transacted between the ofiicial and the passengers.

Gates 9 are hinged to one wall oi the office and have arms 10 extendinginward from them whereby they may be manipulated from the inside of theOfllCO for the means (not shown) so that said gates may be securedagainst operation from the exterior of the office.

A car such as herein described is adapted to be placed preferably at theforward end of a train and when the train stops at a station thepassengers can only enter it through the vestibule 2 of the ofiice carand must then pass into the lobby 3. The train can then be started andthe passengers permitted to file through the passage 5and past thewindow where their passage may be purchased or tickets deposited and anyother necessary business transacted. After leaving the passage 5 theycan take seats in any portion of the train, but all of the exits fromthe other cars are locked it will be impossible for any passenger toleave the train except by way of the office car. By utilizing a car ofthis character a register can be conveniently kept in the ofiice oi thenames and destinations of all passengers, the amount of fare collectedfrom each and in fact any other desirable data.

In order to facilitate the transaction of business the office may belocated in the center of the car as shown at 11 in Fig. 2, with apassage 12 at each side thereof. This arrangement, however, wouldnecessitate the employment of two officials to attend to the passengers.

What I claim is A car provided with a vestibule and a lobby openingthereinto. an office at the inner end of said lobby and provided with awindow, with a passageway at the side thereof, gates pivotally mountedto extend into said passage upon.0pp0site sides of said window, and armsrigid with said gates and extending into said oflice and havingperforated ears whereby said gates may be locked from within the office.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

ELI D. SMALL.-

Witnesses O. J. Mnncnn, m R. E. SrnvnNsoN.

